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- Artist: Hotel Alexis
- Album: Goliath, I'm On Your Side
- Label: Broken Sparrow
- Year of Release: 2006
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- Reviewed by: patchen on 2006-12-06
RecommendSidney (Alexis) Lindner, frontman for another country-tinged band, Torrez, delivers a set of hopeful, yet hard-won truths from the battlefields of love with the awesome Hotel Alexis. With a gritty pedal-steel behind him, and the vocals jacked in the mix, songs like “ It’s Obvious Now” and “The Season for Working” point to moments of change, of finally getting off your ass and becoming someone different from the same old. “Superman & Vitamins” and “Dapper Dan” indicate the foolishness of some first steps when trying to change, but in the end, these tracks settle into moments when the work has been done, and it time to toast oneself for breaking a bad habit and moving on.
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on 2007-01-27 Proxy Media Said:
The Hotel Alexis are back with their second album, and it delivers on the promise of the first, the well received ‘The Shining Example is Lying on the Floor’. While not totally abandoning the semi-acoustic Americana instrumentation of that album frontman Sidney Alexis has expanded his palette and added some new elements that find 'Goliath,I'm On Your Side' moving into the fuzzy realm of dreamy noise-rock on songs such as 'Hummingbird' . The growth is good and shows a band expanding to meet the quality of the new songs. Also retained of course is perhaps the most effective instrument in The Hotel Alexis's arsenal, Sidney Alexis's distinctive, raspy voice. Once again Alexis tells his stories of the common man struggling with common problems in small towns everywhere. He cares, and he makes you care too. And if you care to take a listen to this fine collection of songs I think you'll find one of the best albums of the year so far.
Rating: 8/10
